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Alan Watts Lectures

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Do You Want to Be Without the Voluntary Happening?

The self has a certain sensation of being in control of life to some extent, through voluntary action. The will seems to have a certain freedom, and yet on the other hand there are limits to that. If you do find that out, you discover that the project of controlling yourself was unnecessary because you were yourself a Buddha from the very beginning. That's what the Upanishads mean when they say quite simply, tatvamasi, you're it.

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